Eit ttss. 'WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1862. TUE order of Govtrnor CURTIN will be road with a very general feeling of disappoint ment. The Govoraor states, on the an thorgy of a despatch from the Secretary of War, that no danger nom exists at the capital, and that he cannot, therefore, ac- cept the services of Ihoso volunteers who have enterrd into the ranks for a three months campaign. The enthusiasm with which the call for troops was first received manifested itself in the immediate organiz t tion of our whole militia force. The people assembled at every recruiting station ; they formed tt ernselves into conipsnies, battalions, and regiments, burning with a dealt.° to meet the enemy in the field and drive the reb3l3 from Virginia. Philadelphia alone would hsva tent twenty thousand men into the District of Columbia bt fore another week was over. In <very department of life our citizens had abandoned business avocations and sacrificed personal interests and prospects for the pur. pose of meeting the call of the President. The sublimity of the scene has never been (quailed; and had the opportunity been olfer(d, they would have proved themselves worthy of their country and of their State. The sicrilices will not b) asked at their bards. The President siys that there is no immediate danger to the capital, and there fore ho can have no use for the temporary services of those who took up the sword to defend the capital. This, in itself, is gratify ing. While we sympathize with those of our fellow-citizens who fled themselves disap pointed in the desire for military service, we are glad to know that the Government is abun'antly able, not only to act upon the de ft naive, but to prosecute an offensive war. The danger we dreaded no longer exists. Those who trembled at the idea of rebel suc cess, snd the invasion of national territory, may shake hands and take courage. Pre sident LINCOLN only desires to fill up the vacancies which a year's warfare has produced in the army, and to make a smell but necessary increase in our present forces. This, then, is the real meaning of the proclamation of the Governor on Mon day last. 'Whila it does not give us an oppor tunity for persoaal sacrifice in the Quid, it has Shown that the old feeling which Fort Sump ter's guns first awakened has not died away. In this second uprising of the American peo ple the grandeur and heroism of their charac ter have been gloriously manifested. And for the opportunity of witnessing this manifesta tion, which will enter into the brightest page of our history, we have to thank the prompti tude and energy of the Governor of Penn sylvania. THE York (Pa.) Gazette, which is the espe cial organ of that ardent friend of Mr. Var.- ZAPIDICIIIAU and Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, WILLIAM Ham WELSH, has taken a sudden fancy to The Hon. WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, member of Congress, from the State of Illinois. After having denounced Senator DOUGLAS, and every friend of that lamented statesman since the beginning of the anti-Lecompton strug gle, for their devotion to truth and their fealty to the true Democracy, the Ga zette now extols Mr. RICHARDSON (‘ as an ar dent Democrat, and like all Demo c rats, a good 'Union man." He takes occasion to introduce in this connection, the editor of Ties and asks us whether, because Mr. Monsen- SON has signed the Democratic Address, we will call him a Breckinridge Democrat. We Shall reply to the Gazette by asking its editor one or two questiohs How long is it since that paper fell in love with Dolmas Democracy, and extolled Dortatas men as ardent Democrats? How many months have p ssed since it denounced - every believer in the tote Senator from Illinois as a traitor to Democratic principles? How long is it since Mr. RICHARDSON, and all who believed with him, were c: Black publicans," and , c Abo litionists," and cc conspirators against the De moorage party?" Bow long is . it since Mr. Wm!' went to Charleston for the purpose of betraying and destroying the illustrious friend of the member from Illinois? Times have changed with this facile and placid chairman of the Democratic. State Com mittee. Ho has wooed new loves and form ed strange friendships. When Doecitas and RICHARDSON, and HARRIS and Beonsitrox,,,were lighting the fight of principle, there was no epithet too vile for them, and for the editor of 'ux PRESS, who was an humble follower of the great cause. DOUGLAS steeps in his grave. He went there amid the ribaldry and hatred of such men as the editor of the York Gazette. Mr. RICHARDSON IrIS followed his own convic tions until he finds himself in the company of such warm admirers of Mr. DOUGLAS as VOORICEB, PENDLETON, BIGLER, and ANCONA. The editor of THE PRESS followed his own convictions, and believes that he • represents the le inciples of the Senator from Illinois as enunciated in the closing days of his grand career. He &Os himself, necessarily, a friend of the Administration, ardently attached to the Union, an enemy to Secession, and a foe to rebellion in every shape and form, whether :it come from the wicked traitors now de stroying Virginia, or their more peaceful allies, who conspire to bring about a disgraceful peace, by party management and partisan intrigue. We have no fault to find with Mr. RionaansON. He is a brave, bold, and frank man, and if he is satisfied with his present associations and the record he is making, we have no desire to criticise or com plain. We congratulate Mr. WELSH, however, upon having found a new friend in an.old taper my, and Mr. RICHARDSON upon being no longer the object of the calumny and denunciation' of the York Gazette, and the chairman of the Breckinridge Democratic State Committee. TEE COUNTRY will Rot be surprised at the message of Mr. President LrncoLN, which we publish to-day. It Is characteristic of the man. It will be seen that he accepts the re sponsibility of all the acts for which the House of Representatives censured the late Secretary of War, Grnerztl CAMERON. The President does this in the most graceful and generous manner. •General Gamow:el is over the seas; be left the country silently, and, with the exception of a brief speech at Har risburg, there is nothing at all in reply to the charge urged against him. But his friends felt that he would be defended in good time. Now that defence comes from the President of the United States. Mr. LINCOLN says very emphatically, that although General CAMERON fully approved the proceedings of the Cabinet, they were not moved or suggest ed by himself, and that not only the Presi dent, but all the other heads of Department 'were each equally responsible with him for whatever error, fault, or wrong, was commit ted in the promises. Be details these proceed: logs very briefly, and ho shows, as we have often endeavored to show, that every stet per formed by the . President is necessarily for the salvation of the country. " I believe," says Mr. LINCOLN, ec that by this and other similar measures taken in that crisis, some of which were without any authority of law, the Go vernment was saved from overthrow." This, -see think, ends the whole matter with rote •rence to General CAMERON and his conneo •►ion with the Administration, and the warm .eat friends of the late Secretary of War could ask no more triumphant vindication of his .course In the dangerous days of the Republic. TnE ELECrION tor member of Congress in ho Bucks and Lehigh district, to fill the ye ancy occasioned by the death. of the Hon. I Ir. COOPER, took place on Saturday last. The ontest was very spirited. J. D. STILES was he nominee of the Democratic party, and 10. LEAR of the Administration party. The listrict being decidedly Democratic, and the I °rinse Democracy having been betrayed Tito the support of the BRECKENRIDGE midi . ate, Mr. STILES was elected, the vote being heavy and close. Bucks county voted for Mr. LEAR, but the , majority tor Mr. STILES in Lehigh overbilanced his vote and secured his. election. • IF A STATE he evolving its political unity, the development of its material resources sad the aggrandizement of its power make the physical bases for Its future organization. If a State's struggle be for the maintenance of a political unity, the development of its re sources confines its effect to the present in hand Bed th . : end in view—the simple preser vation of a national spirit already concretely moulded. Or, if a State be stirred to its ut most depths that it may reconstruct its parts, the development of its resources ought again to have a reference to the future, but to a fu ture of loftier meaning, by subserving the shaping of the now political idea. This triple movement of rise, progress, and reconstruction upon a higher basis, makes the complete cycle of a national life that at tains its best and fullest expression. But no nation has hitherto fulfilled the plan through Inability to carry out its third part. Greece levelled the walls of Troy, and by this con densation of her strength made for herself a place and a name. She unfolded her strength while and for the purpose of repelling DARIUS and XERXES. But when her civilization pass ed to the third ordeal—that of civil war—the aim of neither faction was to reform with a I nobler civic purpose, and therefore, the re sources of neither bore it to a higher level. Both bad to submit to a fresh - force, in PIM- . air ; and when his successors, disorganized, could not rally for a definite aim higher than that which bad preceded them, Greece learned in its humiliation beneath the Roman yoke at Cynocephalae, that no culture, however glo eon', can save a State unless it be but an in strument towards forming some higher politi cal unity. And Rome, too—what is Mr. GM BON called on to record of her Her decline and fall, not her decliue and reorganization ; for that Republic did not learn to make its splendid powers guide it through its civil chaos to some level of a truer humanity. Are we following the example or the warning ? France found her powers raider CLIARLENAGNE, and made them maintain her position through the succeeding centuries. But when the old forms had served their day, and their flashing out by the dawn of the eighteenth" eentury ushered in the reign of the formless, France groped, bloaci blinded and passion-blinded, after some Idea which instinct hinted, but reason dal not define. France deified Raison, but could not hu manize it; BONAPARTE had, therefore, to be its Ideal Man. So, England's Protectorate ended in CHARLES II and the Gnomes. The same question is put to us to-day, and the light of two thousand years' political his tory is given us to read it by, and write our answer. We have passed through two stages with unexampled rapidity; for the pressure of things is greater, and each step faster, .at every Successive age. Nature has traced our route for us. She did not rise to the crea tion of complex organisms till the brute mat ter and the blind forces of the earth had been subdued through huge slow cycles. Every eptich was briefer, as it gave birth to higher forms, 1111 light, the link between matter and spirit, dashed in at a word. So the progress of Ole . moral world, and our own so far, has been in successively shorter times from what were— competed to what shall be—monstrous mis shapen animal and vegetable growths. All things have ripened for this crisis—not only ages and peoples, but even physical means. Isolated from the rest of the world by two oceans, material means livished upon us, we are called on to meet the third great move ment of political and moral progress, and to complete the work- left unfulfilled by former States. Shall we do it? Can we do it? If not, this page of history must be blurred by the tears of coming ages that will be forced mournfully to drag up to slow culmination, and as a task, the work which we were too weak to make a God-given privilege by happy accomplish ment. We have made our resources give us, and maintain for ne, a nationality. They can now remake it, if we bend them to the forma tion of a loftier and purer public condition. We must recognize the dignity of eur humani tarian mission, and, knowing the element that has unorganized us, cast . it out. So shall the idea of the . Republic be ?willed, the country be remoulded on a higher moral basis, and our subjection to any other power than our own will, working out our noble destiny, be made impossible. The Word has been said—cc Let there be light." Shall there now appear the true poli tical man, his life and freedom breathed into I him by Ged's own month AT the close of 1861 and the commence ment of 1862, Mr. DISRAELI, one of the Par liamentary loaders of the Conservative party in England raised a new banner, on which was inscribed INTOLERANCE, instead of PROTEC TION, the old watchword of the Tories. At farmer's ordinaries and at more imposing Ag ricultural banquets, Mr.Distrama talked loudly, not of green crops and rotation, but of the Church, and the necessity of upholding it. In conservative parlance, when a man talks of ci standing by the Church," he means its reve num lie made no demonstration on the point until lately, but quietly drilled his fol lowers, and has at last led 'them to victory ov Jr the Government and the Liberal party. The news telegraphed as received at Caps Race, on Sunday, by the Hibernian, is as late as the 16th ult., and, though very briefly, in-, forms us that on the preceding evening the House of Commons, by a large majority, had rejected a bill for abolishing Church Rates, and had passed a resolution declaring it un- Vise and unjust to abolish this . tax without providing some means of raising the neces sary money. This was considered as a great triumph over the Government, for though the proposed action'against the Church Rates was not precisely a Ministerial project, it had the sanction of the Ministry. In addition to the large amount of property held by the Church of England, in real estate and from tithes, &c., is a tax levied on the parishioners and ocoupiefa of land in a parish, by a majority of their own body in vestry as sembled. Formerly, the tithes were distri buted in three equal portions—one for the support of the clergy, one for the relief of the poor, and one for the upholding and repairing of the fabric of the church. • At first, this tax was a voluntary offering, which gradually came ~to be exacted, as a right, under ecclesiastical tenure. That the churches should be kept in repair is admitted byall; but Dissenters, who are about as numerous in England as the Low- Church people, object to being subjected to a double mulct—first, to build and maintain their own places of worship, and next, to keep in repair the sacred edifices of the • Clmrch of England, within which they (the Dissenters) never set foot. In some instances, where the Dissenters outnumbered the Churchmen, it has been voted in the Vestry that no Church rate should be laid or levied.. It generally causes much heart-burning, and, indeed, libe ral Churchmen admit the injustice of requiring Dissenters to maintain places of worship which they never enter. In 1834, Lord Ammar, their Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced a bill to abolish Church rates, and repeated parliamentary ef forts for the same purpose have been made since. In the session of, 18511-60 a mea sure to this effect, not emanating from but strongly supported by the Palmerston Cabinet, actually passed the House of Commons, by a small majority, and was defeated in the Lords. The measure which the Commons have just now rejected also was strongly backed by Government influence. Its defeat is less, important than the fact, thereby disclosed, that on a set trial of strength, between the Ministry and ,the Opposition, fairly made in the Parliamentary cock—pit, the Government were in a minority of seventeen votes. In other words, that whenever it so please them, Danny and Dxsßaxi.ir can elect Perusasrhst anti:RUSSELL from office. . How far their doing so would affect this country is too grave a quest:on to be discussed at the conclusion of an article. AT A. RECENT MEETING of the Lutheran Synod, in Lancaster, after the close of their theological business, a venerable clergyman, with a few brief and pertinent remarks, intro duced a resolution In favor of the Union, and strongly supporting the patriotic Adminis tration of President LINCOLN: This oliettad some glowing and eloquent speeches in favor of both, from several of the reverend gentle men—one of whom, I am informed, in the ar dor of his feeling's, and holding out his arm in view of the whole audience, exclaimed: ec If I thought I had a drop of disloyal blood in my veins, I would, (to use the language of a dutinguished—No !—an extinguished ox-Pre sident of the United States,) open them, and let it out !" LETTER FROM OCCASIONAL." WASHINGTON, May 27,1862. The spontaneous response of the people to the last call of the Government, and the elec trical patriotism displayed since the events of Saturday and Sunday, should not be disre garded by the rebels and their sympathizing friends. Something was needed to attract public attention to these busy - traitors, and their new movements have accomplished the object. That hot-bed of disaffection, Balti more oily, in which, even as the Federal Government was saving its trade from annihilation by reconstructing railroads, and pouring in millions of patronage among its people, our army and our country have been, for months, habitually insulted, has at last re volted against the alders and abettors of the 'Great Treason, who have plotted and revelled in . that city. Presuming that they could safely instruct their women in the genteel pastime of denouncing and sneering at the Government and its friends, and misled by the fact that these fair champions of a bad cause were tolerated in these exhibitions of their feelings, some of the bolder leaders ven tured to exult over the defeat and butchery of the Maryland regiment and the capture of Col. Kenly. In an instant this Union senti nient burst forth like a tempest. The citi zens, who had borne the taunts and threats of the rebel aristocrats atd bullies, re solved to take the case in their own hands,. and they administered the 'remedy on Satur day and Sunday in a most summary manner. This time it was not the army of the United States that cowed and chastised the mob and the slave-holders and rebels of Baltimore. It was tbo people themselves. Tho indignation that flred the loyal States after the fall of Sumpter, and the massacre of the Massachu setts troops, broke out in Baltimore, and, the cowards who have put forth their women to insult the flag, were themselves exposed to the scorn and anger of the people, and compelled to fly to save their lives. • Arid I rejoice that the same spirit is being rekindled in the free States. There, as irrlial timore, there are many who regard this struggle for constitutional liberty with indifference and hatred, and they have been busy for months in filling the newspapers and the public mind with misrepresentations of the objects of the war, and with apologies for Treason. They did not pause in these labors of love to utter a word of encouragement to the brave men fighting for the flag—nor-to drop a tear over those who fell in the fight—nor to give a sign .of joy when a Union victory was proclaimed. Probably they will condescend to halt in their career of ingratitude and treason when they see the frowning front of the people, and hear the mutterings of the gathering popular storm. I am surprised that any nowspapar pretend ing to be loyal, especially if published is the city of Washington, should attempt to . check and discourage this uprising of the people, by denying that new perils threaten the common cause. While.it may be true that the national capital has not been in imminent danger since Saturday last, it is now evident that the rebels looked to the capture of this city as a result of their recent demonstrations, and that nearly-all their movements in 'Virginia have been directed to that end. They were to be aided by the sympathizers In Maryland, and hundreds in this city wore undoubtedly ready to seize the first opportunity to give them military assistance. The best judges of the common danger are the President and his mi litary and civil advisers, and it is their ap peals that the Governors of the different States are so eloquently answering. Now that the holy excitement that threlle.d and swayed and consolidated the masses of the free States, a year ago, is once more dis played, let it not be again permitted to languish. The war must, if possible, be conducted with tenfold more energy than. ever. The people stand ready to sacrifice their fortunes and their lives to put down the Rebtllion, and the Government will, I have no doubt, cheerfully second their efforts, and re spond to their exhortations. The traitors long ago discarded all hope or desire for peace. Re soiling to every expedient that revenge and savage hatred, and fanatical fury can suggest, they have become desperate. Thoir motto is tbat of cg no quarter" to the Union army, and to the Union men, and every manifestation of mer cy on the part'ot the Administration is greetod with. derision,-and-rejected with indignation. The alternative, therefore, presented to - us is to make immediate, extensive, and irresistible warlike preparations—to strike the rebellion at once, and in all of' its strongholds, and to adopt every measure, no matter how severe or stringent, that may bo necessary to reassert the Federal authority. From this hour the sword should bo drawn against the. fleas who seek the life of the Republic, and never sheathed until those who have (livid to make treason successful shall have perished. Otwarostat. Minors, and particularly England, found it difficult to realize the fact that New Orleans, abandoned by the Rebels, was in the bands of the Union army. This news reached Liver pool by the Canada on the 11th, and, even when confirmed by Southern letters, was re ceived with surprise and disbelief: People are unwilling to believe what is opposed to their desire. Confirmed by subsequent mails, the news is accepted as true, and variously Commented on by the newspapers. It bad little or . no effect on the price of cotton, be ciiise • the brokers and manufacturers know thati for some time at least, a supply of cotton ikom New. Orleans is nofto be expected. The tendency, of prices, however, is downward, which indicates an impression that cotton Would don become more abundant in the Eng- lish market than it has been for a considerable time. The Times admits, evidently with reluctance, that the fall of New Orleans is a heavy blow for tlie South. Lately it contended, with a curious logic of its own, that Northern sue cesseBwere Southern gains, and that Southern successes were deadly blows to the North. According to this very original argument, the Confederates ought to rejoice over their loss of New Orleans, and be delighted by what has aken place at Norfolk, Yorktown, and other °cantles. That the blockade would be opened by President LINCOLN was expected by the tag lish journals, which, however, regard each an event as important only in relation to cotton. In Loiion.there were strong doubti whether, at any early period, cotton would be received from New Orleans. A different opinion pre vailed at Manchester, the capital of the cotton trade.. It was finally acknowledged that the capture of New Orleans had been effected, /Ltd in a thoroughly masterly manner. The real superiority of the North seems to dawn, though slowly, on the British mind, which had been impressed the other way by the misre presentations of Mr. RUSSELL. Of course, since the capture of New Orleans, the Paris and London journals have ceased to repeat their canard as to the interference of England and Prince in American affairs, by recognition of cc the so-called Southern Confederacy." WHEN THE revelations in regard to the bar barities inflicted by the rebels upon our wounded prisoners, and the dead bodies of our soldiers, were made public, the sympa thizers with Secession, here and "elsewhere, pronounced them too monstrous for belief, and charged - Senator-WADE, the chairman of the Committee on the Conduct of the Kitt, with extravagant misstatements. They al leged it was impossible that . the chivalry of the South could resort to such inhumanities, but as other proofs began to. thicken, until at lakt there could be no successful denial of the revolting accusation, they changed their tone; and now we hoar them protesting that none of these revelations should be laid before the people lest they may stir up a still bitterer state of teeing between the North and the South. Thus it is that our country .is fet tered and embarrassed by the man whose hearts beat responsive with the treason of the leaders of the Rebellion. LEY EVERY TIMOR be paid to that brave soldier and commander, General &GEL, of Missouri. He is now in Washington, at the snmmons of the President, and will be recog nized by the Administration in the most hand some manner. He is a representative man, a. soldier who knows no fear, and has been pa tient and faithful; a citizen who feels the inspi ration of this cause, and believes in loyalty as he believes in his God. He represents the great German element which has entered so largely into' the progress of the war' for the Union.. His countrymen worship his name, and have been stimulated: by his example. It will be a high compliment to their devotion, and a filling tribute to his bravery, to give him an important command. He has done his. THE PRESS. - PHILLADELIIIIA, WANESDAY. MAY 28, 1862. work in Missouri. There is work to do in Virginia, and his whole course on the banks of the Mississippi gives us an assurance that he will do nobly on the banks of the Potomac. FROM WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to 4( The Press." WASIIINPRON, May 27, 18432. The, Publication of Army Movements— . General McClellan Desires the Editors to be held Responsible. WjatinNGToN, Nay 27.—The following despatch wag received at the Wur Department to•night : • To Iron. E. M. Stanton: I find that some of the newspapers publish letters from their cerreeyotdents with thin army giving important in fot motion conce•niag oar morementa, position of troops, de., in positive rielation of Yoncerders. e it in impossible for me to ascertain, with certainty, who them anonymone syritere aro, I beg to nuggest that another order be published holding the editors re eponaiblo for Ito Infraction. G. B.- HoGLE L &If , Major General. Capture of rianover COnrt Rouse by Gen. McClellan—A Rebel Cannon Taken. The War Department received advicee fram General McCLELLAN, Ode evening, announcing the capture of Uncover Court Rouse. Our hies in BIM to be emelt, but that of tbe rebels croadderablo in killed, wounded and pritoners. One of the euerny'i cannon was captnred. No Tidings from Get!. lialleck or Gen. Banks. tvivieel from Gen. Ilm.tnon have bean received to-day at the War Department, and nothing furaker from Gru. BANKS. 1 The President's . Message. The 'President has tent a manage to (Jonisreae. taping uyon himself and thb Cabinet iAtegether the reaonal- Witty of the moms for which tie Rouse of Representa tives lately censured the late BecVetary of War, General CAMERON. It is hoped by him, by all the m. nsbers of the Cabinet, that this Enesantp will be understood by the public at an evidence of thelr thtertnivation that ne imaginary eivislona shall be Molten up in the aktiminia tration. The real and the unanimity of the Administration are equal to what have existed here a any time. The public well, perhaps coon enough, Sod out, from the disposition made here, that there is not, and ins not been, tiny such alarm concerning this city or it 4 vicinity as hes been eltewhere imagined, and that t regiments called for ace to bo need rroperly In view cei successful operations by the grand armies in the field, sad to give them pierfent efficiency. illeSrnge from the President—Mexican Affairs. 1 ThePreeident sent the following,to the Senate to day: if I transmit a report from the 4 , ecretarY of State, in answer to tho resolution of the Foliate of the 22dInstaat, calling for further correepondenco: relative to t Mexican affairs:" To the President: Tho Secretary of State, NE whom was referred the re solution of the Senate of the ".stld iitetant, requesting the President to transmit to that body if not incompatible with tho public interest, "copies of,such correspondence as may have been received by thii Government, since that acsommtnied by the measles of April 14, 11362,.re1a- Hog to the condition of affairs in Mtixico, and the break. hugup of the treaty- withthe latter by the allied Powers," ban the honor to report that it is notdeemed expedient to cc mply with the request at the present limo. • lies sectfully submitted, WILLIAM H. sEwtam. An Important Speech on Finances. The Bonne was deeply interested, to- day, in the able speech made by Mr. DAwee, of Massachusetts, to . reply to Mr. Yoonuees, of Indiana, on tho:questlon of Govern:- meat finances. Neatly every member was in his seat. Mr. D. presented in graphic sentences the reliable data regarding the etace of our finances. He demonstrated that the public debt was far below the amount named in the speech made the other day. Instead of the interest on the debt being nearly ono hundred millions, It Is but thirty millions of dollars. Mexican Affairs. A gentleman who hew just arrived here on official bit- Meuse, from the city of Mexico, hsviug left there on the . sth lest, reports that towards the latter part of last month. the British Minister, Slr Charles Wykc, con cluded a treaty at Puebla with Sr. Doblado, by which ell difficulties with the Freglish were amicably settled; and bad ft not been for the sudden action of the French, a treaty with Spain would have been concluded also by Sr. Doblado and General Prim. The latter person loft, home - Ter, the choice of Mexico on 'good terms with the Juores Government, and a minister will be sent to Ma-; drid to arrange satisfactorily all matters in dispute. The President of the United States, in reply to a roc:e lution of the House of Bepresentativen, anteing,' if not incompatible with the public interests, to be (wretched with copies of such correspondents(' as' may have been received entre the latenteesage relative to the condition of affairs in Mexico, and the broakinai up of the treaty with theAstter by the tAllied Powers, says it is not deemed expedientto comply with the request to:they. Gen. Banks Lost no Cannon. Information bee been received here that Gen. BA:vira,. in his late retreat, which was made so successfully, re talmd all his artillery, not losing a single cannon. Enlargement of the Erie Canal. The Ithuse Military Committee bold a meeting to morrow to consider the question of extending the aid of the Govethment to the enlargement ei the New Tor/Nand Erie Canal, so that gunboats may ascend the -Hudson, and peas to the Northern latest Arrival of General Sigel. Meier General FRANZ Stone arrived in the city this moraine(' and reported himself immediately to the War Department. Ho will doubtless have a new command. General alattow sm. was among the dthtinguisbee. vial tors in the city today. Genera! Sigel Serenaded. General STORL wee serenaded to-night. An immonco crowd attended, and the General made a short speech, which was received with great enthusiasm. Exhuming Bodies Prohibited. • Notice is given br the War Department that the fur ther exhumation of the bodios of the deceased soldiers, In eases whore piblic means of transportation. would have to he relied on, cannot be permitted, and has been pro hibitt.d. One or two soldiers have got to Manassas, and thence bore on the ans. who succeeded in escaping from Front tore!, where tho fight was bad on Friday 11W, between the Ist Afar, land Regiment and the rebels. They seam to be genuine refugees, std tell a straight story. At the baffle the rebels slowed no quarter, even bayoneting our rounded on they lay on the field, and performing other inhuman deeds, equally barberouswith ttioss per petrated on the bodiel of our troops buried at Bull Bun• Proposals for Raising Sunken Vessels. The Navy Department will receive proposals until the ]at of June for raising the sunken vessels in Hampton Roads. The following have been appointed acting masters' mates, and ordered to Nesv York: henry 11. Francis, Benj. F. Morris, John F. Lovejoy, Peter C. As3erton, Frederick Furbish, Ches. Bostwick, George F. Benson, Oscar Wendell, John Beam and John H. Leviseett. The Postmaster General to-day ordered the following mail messengers appointed : At Wilkesbarro, Pa., David Seaman, in place of John Eboher, Ai Elizabethtown, PA., John G. Mellinger, in place of William Lots:. Eigel, Jefferson county, Pcnnsylvania. James McNeal, postmaster. Directly on the route 2,805, Brookville to IYurrenaville. Jackson Bun, Warren county, Pennsyttrattia, John Dunham, postmaster. On ronte 2,U'9, Sugar Grove to Warren. Lender, Warren county, Pennsylvania, S. W. Brown, positneeter. Mao on ronto 2,769, Sugar Grove to Warren. lbeee offices. which will fut Dish regular moil facilities, here been establiehed on the recommendation of Mellon. John Patton. At Bock Bell, Kent county, Maryland, Thomas D. Burgess is appointed postmaster, vice S. G. &inlet, re ,signod. At WerSeldsburgh, Carroll county, Maryland, Jeshni W. Stillman, .postmaster, vice J. B. Summon, reaigaed. lion. E. H. Webster , s district EPRINCVIELD, M., VI ay 27.—Tho Governor has called for three retlments of volunteers for three months, for immediate service, to relieve the regiments now ender marching orders for the field. HRADQUARTERS 01' TIM ATINT OF TOR May 21-8.30 P. M. Rebel Barbarities Naval Appointments Post Office Affairs—Pennsylvania and Maryland. AtßraddoeVe Field, Joeeph Welter'. _ • ESTABLISIMENTS More' Illinois Troops FROM HARRISBURG, Circular from the Adjutant General to the Major Generals. Nertnrsznao, May 27.—Active progress is making, in obedience to the requisition recently mule by the United States Government, to organ:so and forward itumedintely all the volunteer and militia force in the State. Armin utile, the State authorities have requested the War De paltmrat to modify thu requisition by specifying the number of men that are wanted It is generally believed that, in fact, a small 'part of the military force of the State will be sufficient to meet any existing emergency. The following circular. ha• just been made public: lc To Major Generale commanding Division° of the Penn syli. ante Militia: GRNERAL : I enclose you General Orders Nos. 23, 24, and 25, of there 'headquarters. In carrying these or ders into effect you will make known to the Volunteer Militia in your command, and to each persons as' are willing to form new companies with a view to service for three months, that volunteers for the war will ba raised in a different manlier. • . e. Irmo t. That all regiments or companies, now organ ized 'or that shall be organized under the requisition from the General Government, shell report to you. '• V tonne). Oe receiving such return you will, without delay,'report the same to are. speoifying the officers of the resinient. nunilier of companies, names of-captains, and number of men, and in case of companies, the name of the captain and number of men, the United States not receiving any company with leas than eighty men, rank and tile, that I may hand over the same to the Gaited States officers in charge, who will furnish trans. yortaticn, Ac., under the laws of the United Btatea, to each rendezvous as may be designated, the State assum ing no liability for any expense whatever. 4, A. L. ItIIigSEGI, rr Assistant Adjutant General of Pennsylvania?) Safety of the 78th New York Regiment VIM YORK, May 27.—The following despatch has been roceiwil by R. F. Andrews, Surveyor of the Port, dated Harper's Ferry, May 27th. Inarrt in the papers a contrad:ction of the report that the 78th Regiment; New York Volunteers, has been eat to pieces. The regiment bus not been in action, and id in good condition. DANIEL ULLMAN, Colonel 78th Volunteers. A Rebel Pritrateer in the China Sea Yogic, May 21.—A leiter from Batavia, dated March 81. reports a . Confederate privateer eteamer, mounted with eight rided gang, in the China sea. She bee been spoken by an English Man•of-war. Affairs in Baltimore. DALmoan, May 27.—A1l is ortiot bore. A large force of police ie Btation.ed along•Baltirsore street and other lo calities, to prevent turbulent gatherings. Markets by Telegraph._ CI May Z.—Floor le doll and unchanged red wheat declined 2c, sod closed at 880,90; white un changed; whisky has declined to 1516 ; nothing doing ill mese pork; city packed, $10.50; balk meats dull. Exchaage dull at %DX ; gold advanced to 3% Prom. 'OM FORTRESS MONROE. FOR E , El Mention, blny 28.—Mr. William A. Haler Hailed Otto military telegraph, is engaged in laying a robmiu l nt cable amen the Bolide from SowelPa Point to tbo 4icro between Newport News Point and Hampton creek. A land lino will be built from the former Point to Norfol f and also connect with the existing line between the fo tre and Newport News. Advises from our float at City Point, JAMCi river, re otivedlast night, slate that no new attack had yet been made i ?pon tho rebol fortifications below Richmond. 01'4 of the men on the gunboat Port Royal was wounded in the thigh, on Saturday, by a rifle ehot from the shore, whilo on the look-out in the foretop. The ennui's CharpshoOlers make it dangerous to pass from ono veesel to another, end their balls freuuontly strike thole Wee. Ail the inhabitants of Oity Point bare been forced to 020,0 to Petersburg and into the interior, by the rebels. No despatches were received from Norfolk to. day. Latest News from Gen. Banks. All Quiet at Williamsport and Harper's Ferry Wsenlanvea, May 27.—8 y despatches rocelyel at the War Department, wo learn that affairs are quiet at Earpor's Ferry and ite vicinity. A menage from General Dank', dated 1 o'clock this morning, says Captain Collis, of the Zoueves d'Afrinae, has brought his commend into Dancock, having had but two killed. A later destatch from General Banks says all is quiet at Williamsport. The Rebels Retreating; Matinsonn, May 2.9.—Privata accounts from Martins burg represent that only a few rebel scouts arrired •in town yesterday, anksbortly after retired without doing any damage to the town. The indications are that the rebels aro retrestiog to 'Winchester. IMPORTANT FROM HARRISBURG. The Call for Three-Months Volun- teers Countermanded. HAREI£111:110, Ploy 2T.—Tho following importantgono ral order bas just been issued : OlusgßAL ORDER—NO. 26. First. The Oovornor being notified by the Secretary of War, by a telegraphic deepstch received this after noon, that the President will no longer require any other troops from Pennsylvania, to be =Acted into the United Stales service, but those who volunteer for three years, or during the war, General orders Nos. 23, 24, and 25 of these headonarters, dated on the nth inst., calling for three months !Wonteo_r militia are hereby countermand ed and revoked Second. All commanding officers who may have .is sued their orders for the mustering into the service of the United Etates of their respective commands, cinder the Raid orders of the 26th inst., are hereby ordered to coun termand the same. . Third.. The Governor, in issuing this order, congratu lates the people of Pennsylvania on the information re ceived from the War Department, that the emergency which seemed to the Government of the Coiled States so imperatilely to demand their immediate service no longer exists, and would also commend the patriotic zeal and mecrity manifested in every section of the Common weelth to et it. By order of A. G. Curtin, Governor and Commander•in•chief. A. S. BUS 3ELL, Adjutant General. Battle.ot Bottom Bridge Sergeant Maier Edmund A. Wmllagg, of the 10ith Pennsylvania Volunteers, a native of Philadelphia, than gives his experience at the battle of Bottom Bridge, In which his regiment wee engaged : IN STOUT OF I ICIINOND, May 25,1861 peen Booms& : We bad quite a battle on the 20th instant. We marched to the bridge handsomely, driving in the rebel pickets, and got possession of it ; but thin had succeeded in destroying some fifty feet of it on our approach, but we extinguished the flames ; then we filed along the edge of the creek, deploying our skirmlthers in front The battle soon commenced, and wo had it hot and heavy all day until 'sunset. The enemy appeared totter° only two guns In p,eition, and .need folld that. Bad they used shell, with the splendid range they succeeded In obtaining, our casual. tins might have been numerous. /Le It was, our regiment did not have a man killed, and but two wounded. The shells from the battery attached to our brigade exploded among the rebels continually, and. our skirmishers are confident cf having placed at least a score of the enemy • hors de combat; so, I think, be must base suffered se• 'verily. I was . fece to face with them for the first time. Pour of them came out on the road opposite to me. I could not reach them With my pistol, and I thought they would tire their muskets at me; but we stood for BOOM time looking at each other, and both standing up fair ; then they " dropped " and crawled into the bushes, and peeped out every now and then. I waited to give them a chance to tight, bet they would not begin, so I went back to the line at tbo sound of the bugle. The Reprile of Gen. Banks—Natnes of Of !ices Wounded—Maj. Dwight Missing. WILLIAItSPORT, ➢id., May 25, vie. Baltimore, May 25. —Our force during the retreat consleted of only two smell brigades. Gordon's and. Donn.lll nnnifierina teas than 4,ooo'nton, and yet they held the rebels in chock for four boors. ' • The 2d Massachusetts Regiment was the only one from that State eneegcd in the th;lit, and it behaved admirably. ()ant Cites. Mudge, of company F, and Lieut. Growl:du• shield, of comoany G, soi:ryas wounded in the log slightly, 'were the only officers hurt. Major Wilder Dwight is reining, but towns last seen this vide of Winchester. Dr. Francis Lelend was tattoo prisoner whilplattonat,si.s wmiuded.—Boston Tourmo. RO = -0 rill 4 , ra , IP) Zr) =ittimor ni . The Europa off Cape Race. Effect of the News of the Yorktown Evacuation in Europe. EXCITEMENT ON 'CHANGE. RISE IN .ADIERICAN SECURITIES CAPE Bars, May 27.—The royal mail steamship Europa, which sailed from Liverpool on the 17th, via Queenitown on the 17th, for Boston via Halifax, passed this point this evening. She was boarded by the Dowd yachtof the-Associated tress, and the follovring Sum mary of her WiTiCee, which are two days later than here tofore received, tree obtidned : Tile royal mail steamship Persia arrived of Liverpool on the 18th instank The )3 uwafrom the 'United States of the evacuation of Yorktown by the rebels, which wee brought by the ateomer Persia,was received after the regular busbies's hours on the Ith instant. It created considerable ex citement. but the effect bad not been developed when the Europa left Liverpool. American securities Immediately became firmer, and cotton showed signs or bekovioeos. . _ EOM° of the London journals, in endeavoring to dimi nish this victory of the army of the Potpmac, regard it as a part of the strategy of the Confederates. GREAT BRITAIN the Houle of Commons, on the 10th, Mr. Layard said the Government had received from Lord Lyons, a copy of the Committee of the .United States Home of Representatives on the operation of the reciprocity treaty, and had no objection to lay it or the table. Lord Palmerston stated that the Government were also prepared to lay °tithe table ail the information they powsssed respecting The occupation of Mexico and Chloe, and the intentions of the French Oovernment on the subject, and said that what was being done by the British naval and military authorities mst the approba tion of the Government. Ire believed that steps how being taken 'Would tend to the settlement of the affairs at • .•• The London Times, in an editorial on the war in the United avant, says : .tilie advantages gained in the West by the Federate have been such as is impossible to overrate, and are in singular contrast with the plow progress in Virginia." Commercial Intelligence. • [By the steamer Europa.] ' , LIVERPOOL BREADSPOFFS MAUR:RT.—Messrs. Richardson & Spence, and other authorities, report Flour dull, and fidetls lower; miles of American at 24s 6:1030a. 'Wheat very dull, and declined 3d since -Tuesday; rod Western is quoted at 9s EldolOa (81, red Southern 10s 9d® lle, white NVostern Ils white Southern 12so 12s 6d. Cora hs also dull,-and has declined 3esBd ; mixed 27(027a Bd, fellow 27e Bcles27s Bd, white 325032 s dd. LIVER POOL PRO VIS EONS AlSEET.—lleters, Bighted, •Atliya, & Co4and others report Beef with a dosuward tendency. Pork quiet and easier. Bacon heavy, end Bde2l lower. Lard declining. Tallow easier at 420455. TR°mtgs.—Ashes quiet.. Rosin quiet but steady at 34s elBa 9d. Ss 'rite of Turpentine firm at 70®755. Sugar quiet. Coffee firm. Bice dull. Cod Oil no sales. Lin seed Olt steady at 3915030 s ad. - LONDON MARRNTS.—Wheat boas', and lats7.o lower. Iron dull. Sugar quiet, but steady. Rice quiet. Coffco buoyant. Tea declined 161301. Tallow quiet. Spirits of Turpentine excited; sales at 740 630 755. Spirm Oil dull. Linseed 011 still advancing ; sales at 89. v. Linseed Cates declining. LONDON 'MONEY. 51 attlf:ST.—American securities firmer. Erie Railroad, 3331 ; Pennsylvania 58,70, (dull); Illlooie Central Railroad, 45 per cent discount; Penn. eylvania ss, bonds, 72m74c ; Virginia 61, 62a ; Mary land St, 91369). • WOMIDED SOLIMRS ON TUX WAY TO• NEW YORE.- [Special Despatch to the Evening East )—Yoturrown, •y. 20.—The hospital steamer Soauldins will leave White UOII3B this morning with three hundred and twenty-fire sick and wounded - soldiers, and a number of physicians. She sails for new York, and will be due at that port to-morroir. =• CoLOY3M WOODi . OP TUB BBOOKLYI4 YOURTEE)TTR; Ex ellaßCED.-[dpOOtal . Despatch to the .Eoening Post WA aItLYGTOY, May 26.—Coloual Wood, of the Brooklyn Fourteenth, wee yestanlay exchanged, by Generals Wool end linger, for Colonel Patten, of the Confederate army. A Mother Poisons her Child, and then Commits Suicide. A sad affair, growing out of the present war. occurred at No. 332 Avsnue A, lieteTork city, on Sunday eve ning. SOme months ago, it appears, a 'Frenchman, named Jean Phillips, joined the Excelsior Brigage, anti departed for Washington, leaving behind him a wife and an interesting child about tire years old. On Elattardaf - Madame Phillip° received a letter from the seat of war, announcing the death of her husband in a recent engage ment She was devotedly attached to the brave follow, and so terrible wee the shock produced by the sad tidings, that her rett• on 'wax dethroned. and she 'determined to follow her husband even to the'grave.. Accordingly, on Sunday ate made the necessary preparations for the die -position of her , reaming,' when the 'curtain should fall open the last act of the melancholy tragedy. She deter mined to destroy the life oilier child also, and thus cona ph to the drama by killing herself. Haling procured s phial of laudanum, she administer ed a portion of the pnison to ber °fleeting, and .then swallowed the balance herself. Some bones efterwards the unhappy woman was discovered to be in adying con dition, with her child folded closely to her bosom. She was immedlattly removed to Dealevite HoSpittil for medi cal attendance, but died in an hour or so . after her ad mission.' The child lingered will' yesterday afternoon, -when it succumbed to the influence of the poisonous draught, and expired about three coelcck. Coroner Col lin investigated the affair, and upon searching the WV ots of the suicide, be found a note which she bad writterethe night before, giving sit the necessary directions for the dispoeition of the bodies. She bequeathed her little property, consisting of household furniture, Ac , to her mother, and requested that the latter should make all the arrangements for the funeral . SALE of the stook of a watchmaker and jeweller declining business, this Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock at 61. Kirkpatrick k Brother , . auction eers, 604 Chestnut street, comprising a Mae wort- - meat of thirty-hour and eight-day clocks, gold and silver watches, fine gold jewelry, guard, nook, and vest chains, bracelets, fine oar-drops, anger rings, lockets, studs, and buttons, * fall seta of ladies and misses' jewelry, gold and silver pencil oases, gold pens, silver•plated ware, faney goods, fixtures, ao. 10 BE TRERD.—Miesourians nay their State Con vention, which meets on tho first Monday of Jane, will adopt a gradual emancipation policy... A 110.Vitill 7BEATBE.—A pirty'of players have chartered a canal steamer, and are going to use•tt am a theatre along the Erie Canal. MITI{ CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION, Resolution Relating to Military Prisoners Adopted. THE POST•ROUTE BELL PASSED The Tax Bill Under consideration. THE COLORADO DESERT BILL. THE LAND SURVEY BILL PASSED The Presidlnt's Message Exonerating General Cameron. SENATE Military Prisoners. Mr. GRIMES (Rep.), of Dina, offered a resolution requesting the Secretary of War to inform the Senate how many officers and men belonging to the regular or volunteer forces of the United Staten are now in the Penitentiary of tie District of Columbia, to what r,&- moot they belong, and by what court or authority such commitments were made. Adopted. Post- Route Bill. On motion of Mr. COLLAMER (Rep.), of Vermont, the post•route bill was Lillie° up nud ppyyed. Suspending Payments. The resolution suspending the payments, under the act providing for pay meats for ;he troops employed in the Department of the West, was taken up. Mr. lIENDEBSON Union), of Minion?), offered en amendment, that the oommissioners provided for report within sixty days. Adopted. The Tax Bill. The bill was then laid over, and the to x bill taken up The Tax on Tobacco The question being on Mr. Henderson's motion to re duce the tax on tobacco, it was rejected. The Tax on Cotton The amendment striking out the tax of one cant per pound on cotton, having been passod over informally, it wee next taken up. 'Remarks of Mr. Sumner. Mr. SUMNER (Ren.), of Mitenactinsettg, epoko in fa vor of the amendment striking out the tax on cotton, contending that it ebonld not be taxed more then the grain of the Weal.. lirmarks of Mr. Chandler. Mr. CH AXPLER (Rep ), of Michigan, thought that cotton was abundantly able Wheat a tax, and wee in fa vor of making the tax tiro cents inetoad of one cent. Mr. EIMMONS (Rep.), of Rhode Island, opposed the taxing of cotton as rninons to the manufacturers of this country. •Ranning Debate Tbo amendment was further discussed by Messrs. Wil ton, of Massachusetts, Clark, 'Davis, ressenden, An thony, and fdoDouggl in favor of striking it out, and bylleasts. Howe and Meg against it. The amendment ass adopted— yeas 20, nays 16. Modification of Tax on Auction Sales. On motion of Mr. SIMMONS (Rep.) the tax on auc tion Wee was modified no na to be ono per cent. on Rehm of UK rchandisc, &c., and one tenth of one par cent. on Wee of boccie, docks, &c. • Licenses for Liquor. Mr. WILSON (Rep.) of. Massechusette, moved to strike out the berme to retail liquor dealers, on the ground that the Government should not in any way li cense liquor selling. It was sanctioning an immorality, and we !Melt as well license gambling houste, or the clave trade. lie did not want the. Government to put money in the Treasury from such a coerce. Remarks of Mr. Feoseaden. Mr. FESSENDIN (Rep ), of Maine, said we might as well object to tho tax on distilleries, or rectifyers, or jugglers, or anyihing in which there is a regular trade in the United States. The Government takes the fact that the business will bo carried on, and cannot help it, in the Stater, and therefore taxes it as a luxury or a vice. The Goretument does not give a license in any place where the State laws forbid it. Remarks of Mr. Mr. WILSON (Beg.), of Massachusetts, said be would vote against thebill if such a provision was retained init. Remarks of Mr. Ten Eyck. Mr. TEN E YON (imp.), of Now Jame', Enid that the additional Hamitic in his State would be an additional pre teetion, and yet the Senator from Massachneette would not give additional protection to the state of New Jersey. Remarks of Mr. Ifenderson. Mr. ITENDERSON (II.), of Missouri, asked the Sena tor from Mansacinmette if we should tax slaves, would he consider that as the Government sanctioning slavery 1 Mr. WILSON eakt he would not vote to tax elates at Blares, but if it wee propose! to tax them as Persons, be would not object. Adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Colorado Rill. Mr. CRISFIELD (Union), of Maryland, from the Committee on Public bands, reported and advocated a bill granting to the State of California the tract of land known as the Colorado Desert, for the purpose of Miro ducing fresh water upon and covert g the NUM The bill wee referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Survey of Lands. Hr. POTTER (Rep.), of Wisconsin. from the Com mittee on Lands, reported back the Sonata bill providing that contracts for the surreys of public lands shall not be binding stall approved by the Commissioner General of the. Land Office; that the compensation of registers anti receivers be each ENO per annum. with fees and commis, stone, etc. ; the effect being to reduce the expenses of the Surrey and side of /ands. Passed. Message from the President. The SPEAKER laid before the ii 01136 the following meduage from the President: To the Senate and House of Representatives : The in surrection which is yet existing in the United States, and alma et the oeerflu-ow of the Federal Constitution and _tlie l lign,eiieactandeseinely prepared during the winter . c and 881, eed-e.......e4-...mmu mmeemeree,„.m... the form of a treasonable Provlidenal Government, at Montgomery. Alabamee'on the 18th day of February, 1861. Oa the 13th day of aprfl, 1861, the insurgents committed the flagrant act of civil war by the bombard meet and captor-a of Fort Sumpter, which ant off the hope of immediate conciliation. Immediately after wends all the reeds and avenues to this city-were obstructed, and — Gm': capitol was put Ifite the con dition of a digs. The mails in every direction were Mined, and the lines of telegraph cut off by ..the insurgents, and the military and naval forces which had, been called out by the Government for the dtfence of _Washington, were prevented from reaching the city by organized and combined trensonable reeietence iu the Slate of Maryland There was no adequate anti effec tive organization for the public defence. Congress had indefinitely adjourned There was no time to convene them. It became necessary for me to choose whether, using only the melding means, agencies, and procestee which Congress had provided, I should let the Govern ment fall at once into ruin ; or whether, availing myself of the broader powers conferred by the Conatitutlon in cases of Insurrection, I would make an effort to save it, ' with oil its blessings, for they present age and for pos. I thereupon summoned my constitutional adviser*, the Meads of all the Detertmetts, to meet on Sunday, the 20th day of April, 1861, at the office of the Navy Depart ment, and then and there, with their unanimous con entrance, I directed that an armed revenue cutter should proceed to sea, to afford protection to the corn morciel marine, and especially to the California treasure ships, then on their way to this coast. I also directed the commandant of the nary yard at Boston to purchase or chatter, and,attn as quickly as possible, five steamships for purposes of public defence. I directed the tommetedent of the navy yard at Phila delphia to purchase or charter and arm an egad number for the some purpose. I directed the conunandant .at Now York to purchase or charter and arm an equal num ber. I directed Commander Gillia to purchase Cr Mir tet and arm, and put to sett, two other vessels. Similar directions were given to Commodore Dupont, with it view to the opening of passages by water to and from the capital. • • I directed the severelofficers.to take the advice and ob tain the aid and efficient services in the matter of hie Excellency Edwin D. Morgan; the Governer of New York, or, in his absence. George D. Morgan, William M. 'Feasts, R. Id. Diatchford, and Mosses 11. Grinnell, who were, by my directions, especially empowered by the Secretary of 'the Navy to art ter • his department in - that crisis In matters pertaining to the forwarding of troop, and supplies for the public defence. On . the same occasion, I directed that Governor Morgan, • aed Alexander Cummings, of the city of New York, should be authorized by the Secretary of 'War, Simon Cameron, to make all mammary arrangements for the teat sportation of troops and munitions of war, in tire aie and assistance of the officers of the army °Me United States until communication by mails and telegraph should be completely re-established be tween the cities of Washington and New York. No se curity was required to be glien by them, anti either of them was authorized to act, in case of inability to con sult with tbo other. On the acme occasion, I authorized and directed tbo Secretary of the Treasury to advance, without requiring security, two millions of dollars of public money to John A. Dix, George Ordyko, and Rich ard M. Illetchford, of New York, to be used by them in meeting such requiettloas as should be • directly conse quent upon the military and naval measures necessary for the defence and support of the Government, requiring them only to act. without compensation, and to report their transactions when drily called upon. The mayoral Departments of the Government, at that time, contained en large a number 01 disloyal persons that it Would have been impossible to provide safely, torough official ageuta only, for the performance of the duties thus confided to citizens favorably known for thtir ability, loyalty, and rrotrietism. The • inverse - orders issued upon these occurrences were transmitted by pri vate messengers, who pursued a, circuitous way to , the teabotted cities, inland across the States of Pannsylvanta and Ohio and the . Northern lakes. I believe, --- thsit' by these and i other similar pleasures taken in that crisis, :some of which were without any authority, of law, tbs . Government was saved from overthrow, I. am not aware that a dollar of the public teethe thus confided, without authority 'of law, to unofficial persona, was either lot or wasted, although env ehensions of such misdirecsions occurred to MB as olections to these extiaordinary pro ceedings, and wore necessarily overruled. I recall these transactions now, because my attention has been directed' to a resolution which was missed by the House of Repro sentativeir, on the 30th of last month, which is in these words: 44 Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War, by investing Alexander Cummings with the con trol of large sums of the public money, and authority to purcbaeo nollitary,supplies without restrict:inn—without requiring from him any guarantee for the faithful per formance-of bin duties, when the services of. competent public offleem were a:visitable, aid by. involving the Go vernment iu a vast number of contracti'avith persons not legitimately engaged in the business pertaining to the subject matter of such contracts; especlally In the pur &am of arms for future delivery, has adopted a policy highly injurious to the public service, and deserves the censure of the Bonze." Congress will see that I should be wanting equally In candor and in medico if I should leave the censure, ex preenedin this resolution, to rest exclusively or chiefly upon. Mr. Cameron. The same sentiment is unani mously entertained by the Beads of the Departments who participated in the proceedings which the Rouse . of Representatives has censured. It is dueto tnr. Dameren to say that, although be fully approved the proceedings, they were not moved or anggested.hy himself, and that hot only the President, but all- the other Beads of De; partments were at least equally responsible with him for whatever error, wrong, or fault. was committed. is the prep tees - ABRAHAM JANCOLN. Weshington. May 26,1862.. „ ,• . •• Printing the Message Mr. M00111:1MAD (Rep.); or Penusylotiiik..moved that 2,000 cosiest° printed. The subject was ret erred to the Coutadites . on Print ing • WADBWORTII (II), of Kentucky; suggested that there be printed extra apiece of the late Secretary's slued), in which the latter said that he could buy °on greet.. • The Message Referred to the Coinmittee of the Whole o■ the State of the Unicia. Co motiou of bk. 110fillef (Dem.). of Indiana, the message wee referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state cf Abe Uuion. The Hoagie n Committee of 'the -Whole. 'iho Bout° went' into committee on the bill to pur chase a hutipitel in the District or Columbia, whin • 7 Speech of Mr. Dawes. Mr. DAWES (Rep.), of Zdessachusette, replied to dlr. Voorhees' remarks on a former day, when the tatter condemned in his' review what be charactutised as an nnimund, • Woo, and ruinous aystom of humane, im posed on the people within the l•st twelve months. after reading 'Mr. Voorhees' array of figures as to bin assumed public debt, atd its Increasing and alarming magnitude, Mr. Dawes reruarlted that, from reliable data, the expen dttnree of ail the departments of the QI>TOCOIIIOIIt, outside of the and Navy, since the ildrnilli3trittiOn CAMS into power, ate as follows: or the loterinr Department, Indiana and peneions, to the 22d of filar, $8,081.800 ; eiv,l list, foreign intercourse, and roisceneneona, $21,685,010 ; making ,a total of nearly 825,367,000. The experidt tures'of the War Department during that time amounted to $374.472,000; Navy Department for the - tints $42,055,E00, or a total of $418,227,000 The average delly'expinditures of the .War Department have been $1017,295, and adding the daily average of the navy, making a daily average for bothdepa. talents of 5E1943,14T. No repnlettiOns arc unpaid exctpting of a few thoumad.s for illegality or disloyalty. The payments last Thursday were only $ 364 . 017 , rot the day after, when the pay masters came in, the expenditures were $2 000,000, but oe haturday only $600,000. So the expenditures of the Government up to the 22d day or May last in round nombere were for military $.374,000,000, for the navy $42,000,000, and ell other expenditures $26.000,000, a total of 5441,500,ac0 from the etli of March, 1881, till the 22d of May, when the public debt. including $70,000,401 of old debt bequeathed by Buchanan, amounted In the aggregate on Friday last to $481,796,- 146. Mr. Dawes ran a parallel between the expendi toren under the former Adminintration and the present, ebowiog, as to the civil list, that this Adminietration has been far more honest and economical then that. In this connection be referred to the traitorous efforts of Cobb to destroy the credit of the Government, and conipil merited Secretary Chase, showing that the latter has managed affairs with consummate abinte. Not a dell +.r has been lost to the Treasury by default or wasted in profligacy. The result is that the credit of the Govern ment is 'inanition both at home and abroad. In further reply to Mr. Yoorbeee, he said for every dollar plundered by Republicans be could show a corresponding plunder ing by Democrats since this Atiminietration Mlle into power, and concluded with remarks in n 4 degree com p/inn-Mary to the loyalty of Mr. Voorhees and his party friends. WASETINGITOR, Hay 27 Mr. VA LLANDIGHAM (Dem.), of Ohio, replied, al luding to Mr. Daweo' figures. and saying that the Secre tary of the Treasury does not affix hie name to the state ment. 'tame from Borne clerk. The ceneor , of this Adniini.tration had authorized a teltnaphic despatch stating that the expert...a of the Goveroniont do not ex ceed, if they equal, a million of dollars perd ty. Remarks of Mr. Dawes. • Mr. DAWES replied that the gentleman had no authority to eay his statemeot did not bear the alßnatnre of the Secretary of the Trcatuiry, nor vae it true that the (Ida wee furniehed by a clerk of the Treasury De partment Mr. YALTA NDIG ETA It repined, that when the gen tleman would not r ay the etatemout bore the atanettnre of Secretary Chase, he (Vallaudigbani) had thonghtto assume) that it did not hove that official sanction. Be then replied to the financial part of Mr. Dawes' speech, and said ho had the, statements of the Secreta rule of the Treaeury and War, and the chairman or the Committee of Ways and Moans to show expenditures from two to five millions per day. Mr. COLFAX (Bap.), of Indiana, m uie a tow remarks to chow that bfr. Fallandierhain's speech NYIL4 not based on a correct foundation. No attack on the Administra tion, or attempt to enlarge the expondituree can shake the credit of the people. who have determined to carry on the war until the stars and stripes shall everywhere wave. Remarks of Mr. Vallandigham. Mr. VALLANDIG HAM. reeled, that he voted to pledge the oolitic faith to the extent of $150.000,000, but had voted againet the tax-bill, bocenee Its details did not silt him.. Remarks of Mr. Voorhees. Ittr. V 0010311313 (Dem.), of Indiana, said that tho speech to which the gentleman from Mostachtitetts replied had but one object in view—namely: to give to the people of the country the information to wbicb they wei a entitled from the beet lights before him. Let tome other man than one from Massachusetts lecture lite. It bad not been fifty hours since Gov. Andrew, on being called upon for troops, gave a halting evidence of Patriotism by annexing conditions infamous to Min and to Itamschnsetta, and to an American citizen. The gentleman (Mr. Dawes) stood .here to pluck the mita from his eye instead of the boom from the aye of Massa chusetts. Mr. DAWES said the Governor of Kentucky had re. fnved to respond to the call for troops. Mr. WICKLIFFE (U.), of Kentocky. Oh, let Ken tucky alone. Mr. VOORHEES. It was ft bad example for Massa chusetts to follow. The Governor of Kentucky resorted to no such infamous conditions. The gentlemso from Massachusetts today said that the expenditures were not a million a day, yet this same member, in a speech on the Lath of January, remarked that it takes two millions day to Burp art the army in the field. Nobody then cried out deRFOD against the gentleptan. Had not the gentle men further said, on that occasion, that sixty days would being about a consummation, as by that time It would be Impossible for the treasury to meet and continue to meet this state of thinge. Where was such a statement as that in hie (Mr. Voorhees) speech 1 He looked npnn the gen tleman'a speech as an attempt to reconcile his Republican friends and heal their wounds, and present them as the puce, immaculate party of the country. Ho also refer red, in support of his former statement, to the remarks of Mr. Stevens, the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Moine, who said the expenditures were three mil- Hone a day. Speech of Mr. Vallandixham. Remarks of Mr. Vallandigham Remarks of Mr. Colfax. Remarks of Mr. Dawes Speech of Mr. Voorhees. Remarks of Mr. Stevens Mr. STE.VictiS (pep.), of Pennsylvania, explained that at that time a liet4 of one hundred and fifty •easels was moving. Speech of Mr. Voorhees Mr. VOORHEES could not see how these vessels could cost less now than at that time. As to Mr. Data ea' remark about Dewocrato having stolen as much wader this Administration as the Bcpubiicans. come -from whatever party the frauds and psculations might, be denounced the plunderers who prey ou the hard earnings of the people John B. Floyd was indicted here, could the same be said of Simon Cameron 1 A large number of the Republican Representatives here voted snidest the resolution to censure Cameron, and but for the help of the Democrats it would cot have pasted, "and _now the President walks in hors and assumes Came,on ea his own piece of parsonal furniture. The President takes upon himself all Cameron'S in my sins. A man of one virtue and a thousand crimes. The President Lege him to his breast. The gentleman from Massachusetts no more denounced the President, and was not freeman simnel' to say his soul was his own. In conch:Wien, he censured the sidminiatration for oxtrava. gaups. Me delendrd his position, and wanted the figura], es produced the other day. and now to sand. The man who charged Lim with disloyalty, or impeached his mo- Hoes, was false in his teeth. in his throat, and in hie heart. Speech of Mr. Wadsworth. IKr. WADSWORTI{ (II.), of Kentucky. referred to the conduct of Kentucky dark g the present war: awing that, in forty days, she sent more troops Into the field than If aysaohusetts, although the latter has, twelve Re- Prcsiutatives here to the former's ten. If the govern ment of illaasachntetts is tired of the contest, and will net freely contribute of her troops without conditions, give Kentucky the opportunity, and, though Leto the hour, they will affix no conditions. We have enliated for the war, and intend to fight it ont•, and 'we never In tend to pi mind our arum tilt the rebellion ia crueller( to 'the earth and all the Staten arc again united under the Consttntion. . . - Speech .of Mr. Dawes. Mr. D LIVES replied to Mr. Voorhees, saying, among other tbtnge, that he gave him the average expuditures, but the gentleman did not see it. The President, in his metasge, received to• day, took geed care not to take npnn his shoulders the contract, shown to be corrupt end fraudulent, end for which Mr: Cameron was censured by the BOUte. • If the President entrii-ted Alexander Cum mings with the expenditure of 82,000.000, ant sa advised. he did right to disclaim the responsibility ,• but whou the Preeident singled out this one not, ho left the others un der the ceudemostery resointion of the House. In response to Mr. Wadsworth. he said that when the capital was menaced the freemen of lif.assachuseits wore first and foremost with their bleed on the way hither. If hiamachnsette had pawed when Keotneky paused, this city would have born in the powession of the Goths and Vandals. He ahowed the expedition with which the Governor of Massachuretts issued hie proclamation, and the haste with which the troops respondel to the The letter in reply to Fceretary Stanton could not be construed into an implication of conditions. Massachu setts will not tire of this war. She has no blood, no trea sure, that she will not freely offer on the altar of the whole tomb,. Sbe will give her last man, and the last drop of her blood before she will tire of the war of consti tutional liberty and freedom. The committee then rose. Freedom to the Slaves et Rebels Mr. POUTER (Rep ), of InMena, moved the recon sideration of the vote by which the House, yesterday, re jected the hilt to confiscate the slaves of rebels. remarking that he elsberi to offer an amendment applying to the same deems, e lone real and personal property is coufis • crated by the confiscation bill, the principle of the libera tion of their slaves. Fading the motion, the Hones adjourned. LETTER FROM NEW YORK The Negro Brigade Idea Non Plussed—Realth of Dr. Chapin—Effect of Departing Soldiers upon the Theatres—Regiments under Orders . to Move—Great Enthusiasm :along the Mi litiamen—A Rebel Privateer in the China Seas—Alterations of the Cooper Institute The New Proprietor of the Knickerbocker— . The Plating of the Steam Frigate Roanoke. [Correspondence of The Press.] Nile YORK, May 27, 1883. Application was made to Mr. Superintendent Ken nedy, last evening, by amen named Creighton, to grant pernission to establish recruiting places for a "negro brigade," said Creighton to be the acting brigadier general. The superintendent refreshed Ilr. Creightoa'a memory with some of his acts of insubordinatioa while acting as lieutenant colonel of the Wilson Zottaves, at Santa Rosa Islttnl, and his unwillinguess to remain in a position where he could have been of service to the Go- vernment. ltlr. Kennedy did not think that be would respect the requirements of the Union canes any better at the head of a negro brigade than he had iu his.position at the bead of a regiment of patriotic White men. Mr. K. not only gave Mr. C. no encouragement, but positively objected to Lis preeiming to take the Mad of a brigade of men whom be believed he would as soon betray into the bands of the enemy Rabe would take his dinner. - ' The Bev. Dr Chapin's health continues to be auntie factory. < lie has been conflt.ed to hie room for tour "or live days.- Such W(1! •the ovation to the 7th Regiment, on the oe cation of its oeparture last night, that the places of amusement on Broadway were very poorly attended, the excitement on the street proving sufficiently entertain inp to keep the people Bout the interior of the theatres. Three regiments, the Bth, 22d, and 71st, are to leave the city tbis evening. The Bth is commanded by Col. Varian ; the 22d by Col. Monroe; Sad the 71st by Cot. Martin. Vi lonisers to 811 up the ranks have been so nit merous that hundreds have tiid to be declined. Many young num are goin to grief because they cannot have a bend in. The llt g h. 37th. and other tworeginzents will leave to-morrow. • A letter received by Ellwood Waiter Esq., secretary of the Board of Underwriters, dated Batavia, March • 31st, says: "There is a report here that a Confederate priva teer, a steamer mounting eight rifled guns, has. bean spoken In the China seas. The Information, we are in fot med. was bre. nght to Dim:dna by 11 M. steamer 'Vul can, which obtait ed it from H. M. steamer Pioneer, which latter vessel had spoken the privateer" The great hall of the Cooper Institute, where 'must of the public meetings aro now held, is to be altered so as to .be more advantageone to speakers and hearers. Tllll *afros m is to be put on one side of the room, in the cen tre, the teats to form the section of a circle in trout of it. Title is a change which will enhance the value of the hall very much for all ntiricese. . The Knickerbocker Magazine has a new proprietor in Mr. Morris Phillips, a gentleman of affable manners, good business habits, and considerable practical experi ence, and who will bring to Ida now sphere of activity the adventasea resulting from twelve years' of service antler General Morris and N. P. Willis, in_the •Hoste . Journal establishment. The magazine will remain un *der the editorial supervision of Charles G. Leland. . Mew vigor has been infused into the operations at the Brooklyn Navy lard, sad the preparation of light di aught veesels is . rapidly progreraiag. The plating of the Yttain frigate Roanoke, which was commenced some eight dui' since, is still going on. The iron hi four inches thick below water-mark, but it to supposed that belt' sn inch Mere will be added on the aides- As she ap pears at present. no one would recognize the -vessel ail the fine steam frigate that almost monopolized • the 1111 :-Cliorage off the navy y era for two years. Her entire rigging and butwm he have bean cut away, and sbt Pre sents the appearance of a huge river barge. She will be finished in a few weeks. . Money is rather more active at 4a5 cent., on cell, chiefly 4% eO5 dr cent. There was another advance in gold to.day, making nearly % IF cett since Saturday. Sales were made at 304 X cfslo4)(. One of the causes of this madden advance, probably, is the increased expenditure of the Govern ment, growing out of the recent %accede of the rebels, to gether with the slow resumption of trade from the tiOnth orn ports. , The foreign exchaege market is very firm. -First-class bills on London are quoted at 11-1%6115, with moderate esles. Tbe following were the sales of Stocks at the Second Board to-day: . _ 65000 U S 64 'Bl reg.lo33i 1e00.13 S cp...103X 1600 13 S 6x'6B reg..lolX 1500 Tr 7 3.10 p n 5.104) • MOO Tenn Stag '9o 58 30t4 Missouri-St 6e.. 51X 18600 Amer Geld 104 75 Pacific M 8'60..112 60 d0....1,10 112 .80 do. 1111' 300 N Y (lent R.... 87 .100 50 d0..:...1:60 87 • 200 Erie Ballyry.b3o 36 . 100 (la.: tOO 86% 400 do ' 300 do. ... .. 88% 300 do 35x 100 . Irie K Prefd... 83;,f NO do ' 60 Hudson B 8.b30 44' • 200 do.— ..130.44x ; • 200 Mich Oen '11.140 Off Mrs lanoy Ilemble, on Ma evening, at Conoort Ralf, will read the play of tl As Yrn Like It," for the benefit of that excellent charity. the Union Temporary Home. Mr. Roberta is playing a good engagement at Mrednut dyed 4heatre. Tbo complimentary benefit for Mrs. john Drew and her three orphaned children takes Place at the Areh - eireet Theatre on Friday evening. Mr. Henry Miller, at hls Witter Garden, (120 and 12Z Vine street,) has increased its attractions by engaging Mr. Ahrend, the violoncello player, and also the well known vocall!te Mi. Jean Louie and Mr. and Mrs. Gt. berati. This place of anlusomont Is very respectably condncted. The Aseocieed Attlets will perform Donizetti's Lucia di Lantmertneor," and the last act of "La Favorita,w at the Academy of 'filmic, on Batunisy evening. Miss Kellogg will appear as Lucia, with Brignoli, Bmini, and F. Amodio, and Madame de 5t19680, from the Opera 3301H0 of Parte, will appear cc Leonora, in "Le Faro rite," supported by Brignoti, Sedai, &c. Between the actr, Mr. Gottschalk will play eoverel of his own compo sitions on the piano -forte. Ides. HIC.UnLE —Let not our readers forget Mrs. Item tile's reading of "As You Like It" this evening, at Goncett Hall. This play has always been a favorite with Shekepeere scholars; in hone. perhaps, is his profound wit dom couched in a more genial, lightseme, loving form. It ie, moreover, historically interesting to us in that we know with tolerable accuracy that Sbakspeare himself eeted in the part of Adam. As no tickets will be sold after the clock strikes eight, punctuality is requested. CAPTAIN WILLIAMS' WHALING VOTAGH, AT Assess- SIX BUILDINGS.—EverAxmIy must see it—everybody is hound to see it. The boat scenes are glorious, the lec tern thriliMg, the paintings superb. Old Salts are de lighted with It, landsmen are enraptured with it—the best exhibition over produced. Wherever it has been thoa eands have flocked to Reit. It is a favorite everywhere. Go and see it this evening; you will not regret it. Eve ri where it draws a crowd, and everywhere it delights the crowd. Go and see it—take your wife to see it—take your children to see it. Got the ship is freighted with inter net for old and young. / Special Meeting of Select Council. TIME HOME GUARD ORGANIZATION. THE CITY REFUSES TO EQUIP THEM Yesterday morning, at 11 o'cicck, a special meeting of Select Council wan held, in accordance with the following call: 707 WALNUT Sr., PIIILADA., May 26,1803:. Emanue/ Rey, gig , Clerk of Select Council : DEAR SIR : Be good enough to call a Bl),Clini meeting of Select Council for to-morrow, (Tuesday,) at 11 o'clock in the motning, for the purpose or conaideri uch bud noes as may be laid before them by request of the Cotn. mink° on the Defence and Protection of the City, and especially businees arising under the cat! of the • Government of the United Stntet. end of the Stet°, for the services of oddiUonal troops from the city of Phils dtlphin. Very truly, &c., TII DO. CU yttrt, President of Select Oeuncil. Mr. WETLIERILL, after the reading of the call. stated that the Commlut a on Defence and Protection thought it proper to call this tnestiug, in order that their acts might be endorsed by Councils. At the meeting of the committee, yesterday, it was agreed that the Home Guards should be called out for United States service. They thought proper to present a battery to the Govern ment. The artillery coumenies were anxious to enlist in the Govmnnient service. 7 o equip them and put them in readiness required an outlay, which should, of course, be paid. A prejudice has long existed in the public mind against the Home Guard, and the actions of the comvit- . . tee have beep greatly crippled on account of this preju dice. The City - Controller hes pm taken* w of this preju dice, for be refuies to countersign the arrante. The committee have always contended that while this rebellion existed it was important to keep up the Heine Crowd organization. They have fouebt against tats prijudico. The Homo Guard, in lees than thirty-six bourn, will be ready to send off not lees than three thou. send men. Be then offered the following resolution : Resolved, By the Select and Com non Councils of the city of Philadelphia, that the Controller of the city be, and he is hereby, reeneeted and directed to countersign all were ants which may be drawn by the Mayor of the city, in pursuance of reso'ntions of the Committee of Defence and Protection, meekest the appropriation here tofore mede, to be expended by the Mayor tinder the di rection of Raid Committee of Detente awl Protection of the City Mr. Fox said bcforo rottog be was desirous of knowing how far this resolution was intended to cover. lie no derstood-it wae intended to equip fully the Home Guard. lle was willing to do all that loyalty and good citizenship reqnired, but -le wished to proceed cautiously In this abetter. • Mr. WHIIIIITILL replied that it would be impossible to give the details for the nlalpinent of the Home Guard. 'The United States Government e ill ilisttruo the debt and fully aniform the orgoolzation. The Home Guard labor under peculiar difficulties, Other military oreanizations do not defend for their equipmout upon the city. They are in come• measure equipped by large contributions of the citizens of Philadelphia. The Home Cm wil t when they appeal for uniforms, are told that they should souls , to the city, for thoy are under the special prohicdon ol the city. If the Committee on Saf•ty and Defence of the City incur the debt, they should know in advance that the warrants will be countersigned. The committee have certain unforeseen expenses to meet, and they shoced feel assured that Councils sill endorse their• action, and the Controller will sign their warrants. Mr. Fox a ithril to know whether the Mayor thought it advisable to call this mewing. Mr. WETIIEII.II,I said the Mayor did not give big con sent in so many words, but he approved of the resolution which has been read. ➢lr. CCTI.E.it said he had had a conversation with the _ . . . . Mayor, , aho knew the meting was to be called, and he nothing against it. FOX' said, in regard to the cenversation with the Mayor, stated by Mr. Cutler, that, or course, the Mayor, bath's-hie own Vepultalent of d trios to attend to, would not volunteer to say anything against the call of tide meeting. ' Dlr. DAVIS then remarked that the Mayor had sp. proved of the calling of the meeting. far. Fox responded that there evidently met be some error about thin, as he distinctly understood that the Mayor, upon Doing conferred with, did any that there wee no neex-eeity for calling this special meeting, in which the epealler fully concurred. 114 ho thought the effect of It would bermhealthful, end adding nnarct-s3ary oxeltetnent to that already existiug to the community. Thet tbie was, of all others, a period in which at least t)ia authorities of Pliilathipbla should be calm, and, although prompt to act if necessary, they should be prudent, and exercise tbo most deliberate discretion. With respect to the action of the Committee on Defence, It had always Fad the most enlarged confidence and co-operation of the Councils, at.d he did not tor an to nttrr a word or rodeo- ton upon the members of the comm!ttee—the com- position of Which was his mrsonal frieode—but still, he was bound to say that he entirely differed with them as to the propriety of the re l flOi before the meeting. The resolution, if passed, would declare the approval of Councils to all the seta and dolons of this eummittee; from its first oraaniestion until now. without Councils having the slightest knowledge thereof, and he never could vote tor a reeolution which committed him to the endorsement of all their acts, no matter how extrava gant, for all time to corns. ice had heard It said that in this full tenlynnent of the Hnmo Guard It was contem plated to purchase over three lthadred bones, to perfect the battery organization, camp centring°, clothing, and. rations. involving an outlay without limit. en fares dean 'cite knew. Now, if he thought that the 11. 6. Govern ment had not the means to furnish these things., or could not conveniently furnish them in time, in view of the public neceseitioy, he won't', with all his heat t, vote to le:n(6h them; hot he believed entirely to the contrary, and there wee, therefore, na necessity, as far an be could yet ate, for such an outlay. Again, these ci•lzen sol diers, bath of the Borne Guard and Deserve Brigade, were actuated by one common, patriotic impulse—to dg fend the Unica and the Constitution—and, therefore, ebteld mt et with our hearty encouragement, eo that in the dist:flotation of the city tondo, if nece,mtry to fit out a lardy amen from Philadelphia, be would extend equal aid to all, making no distinctions. lie learned from the - chairman that the ControPer bad refneed to sign certain watranta drawn by prier of this committee. Cu! hence the necessity for this reeolntion. Give us, in detail, the apecific warrants which the .Controller has refused to man, and if they appear proper, he would be among the first to vote for instructions is the Controller to sign them, hut be could not without such Information sweep through a measure preventing this officer from the exer cise of his lawful prerogative. For thews reasons 113 paused. Be did not with to be carried away by the retrietism and impetuosity of the hour. The community in sufficiently excited without any stimulant upon our part. As to the matter of zeimburstng the city for a large outlay, be desired rune authoritative officer's pledge that it should be reimbursed, and then, whether necarsary or no, he might be induced to sanction it. There had been heretofore large execnees incurred among others in the garrisoning of Forte Mifflin and Delaware by soldiers under (weir of the city, but he had yet to atio the first dotter of this Tutored to the treasury, and, unless under a great emergency, he felt that Councils should not invest any more to this manner without a certainty of repay meet. Be thought that we should be prudent, and take time to deliberate before acting in this hasty manner, Mr. INGHAM perfectly agreed with the previous speaker, that we should be cantious. The committee had ex ercised care, and with Unto vtaw, sated for the pasene of it a revolution. Be bed no d.ubt bet that the outlay by the'city would be reimbursed, by the General Govern moat Mr. DAVIS replied to Mr. Fax at some length. He cor.eidered that the committee had only done what they °pondered right and proper. He'alluded to the excite relent of teat year, when communication was cat off with Washington. A;thst time the president of the Philadel phia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Bailmed bad taken the reeponsibility, had fund-bed the anthers with ration,, and provided means for forwarding them to Washington. If that was done then, the city should certainly do some thing to send her men out properly equipped now. • Dr Ilniont said ho had attended the meeting out of re !pent to those who had called it; but be thought it en tirety unnecessary. He would equally protect the Gray Iteserree with the Home Guard. At the request of Mr. CASSIY. the resolution wee again reed.. of the resolution until the regular meeting of Gowen& He thonglet the matter important, and should be consi dered hy a full chamber. Mr: Gixsooo sold he bad littened to ties remarks of the various members, and he had come to the conclusion that there. w.re two parties present—one for and one againet the Govtrnmeut. He was ashamed to acknow ledge the fact 'What is money when loyalty is required 7 Shell polithe sties. everything that ie patriotic 7 Who now calls on us to shoulder the musket'! It l 4 the Go vernment of the Unikd Suites. Yet WO are to be crippled by men who say " there to no danger." Our couutry bas called on us, and we ought to obey. Would we let our troops go entirely +=provided for 1 IT it is necessary for them to go at nil, set d them like warriors; if not, disband the while organization. Sir. Fox again wee: He said this committee have all the powers thruncile con give them; but the Controller and them are at issue.. These expressimm of patriotism are well, and he was glad to see It; but will these coun cils In the dark endorse all the committee have done or .mey do hereafter I Ho was surprised at the remarks of the geotlemati from the 14th (Sir. Ginned+) ), relative to the loyalty of the numbers. tie thought we had all come together with-,the saute patriotic teenage, and he was poh. ed bear remarks of this kind coming front any member :+but be might say that no other member than tie patient= in question would dare to make any such remark with treenail)+, and from him only it would fell without notice... hl7. GINSODO replied to Mr. FOX, who, he said, had mhurderstooel him. He did not moan to impeach the loyalty of any man in 'the chamber. 110 meant to say that there were two parties, oue for and ono against the resolution. . Dr. UHLER only desired that the Homo Guard and the Reserve Grays, should be put upon the same footing. The I'IIII3IIIE3T (Mr. Cuyler) explained that the Gray Reserves had been called out with the First Division, and they had 'asked no aid from the city. The Home Guard, wail peculiarly a Phitadelphie organization, anti wider 'lts special care.. Dr. Titian asked that the matter be postponed, and mode the special question fur Thursday. Mr. LTAD was in favor of the postponement. Nothing could be done, under any circumstances, until Thursday. Mr. WwritIRILL was opposed to the postponement. The Reserves are under the fostering care of the State. The Home Guard are our own children;. let its net stran gle them, nor put a damper on their ardor. He had con fidence in the Picwident and the Governor, the military authority which we look to. Cells ware made for the previous questieu—to wit : the postponement of the question, and the making of it the special order for Tharadey next. Upon taking the queetion, it was decided in the allircia hee by a vote of 7 to 6. Mr../. P. WIITRERILI. then presented his resignation ea a member of the Committee on the Defence and Pro tection of the City. The coesleeratien of tho resignation 14884 on nantiont postponed until the ' regular meeting of the , chamber. Adjourned. „ 200 Mich 'Oen R.. 560 59% 200 Mb Sidi 1 R.lOO 2331 10 do— .. '24 50 do • b3O 23% 200 In Cent R Scrip.. 80g 25 do.. • 60% 240 Mich 8 tti NIGS 5434 300 Otero & Pitts R.. 211( .50 Gel'd:Chl R..113$ 87g 100 do 87g 100 do 87% 100 d0.......... 67 34 , 3 80 07(X100 OW/ dio d o. _ 4 I X 423 42% 41X , 100 • do 42 60 UM R R I R....." 60% 50 • d0.....—b310 BOX 200 do 60g 100 do . 60g 60 do 6fig '5O do b3O 60% 100 MR & p Do Oh R'27% Public Amusements. THE CITY. Ms. DOUGHERTY said he would move the postponement Arrnn..Tzn 'SUICIDE —Between II and 12 o'clock on Monday night, an old Italy, aged about t& years, attempted to drown hermit by jumping overboard at &linen-street wharf: She. seen by e: me custom-hone °dicers to jump overboard, and was, after7eonie. difficulty; reacuod by them. She wel con veyed to her residence in the neighborhood.
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